"5 Small Things Friday" No. 35

Go back and read this post for the story behind "Five Small Things Friday".

For this week, here is my list:

1. Sight: Memorial Day At The S. Family's House

2. Hearing: "We should be home in a little bit."

3. Smell: Rain Coming

4. Taste: Trissy's Fruit Cookie

5. Touch: Swimming In A Pond

The stories behind the list:

1. See this post for the story.

2. Trissy and I were on our way back to the house from town Saturday after working at the church on Bible School decorations for the afternoon. On our way, The Grandmother called her cell phone and asked where we were and if we were going to get to visit them for a little while in the evening. Trissy replied cheerfully, "We should be home in a little bit." and then told exactly where we were on the route.
But that sentence got me thinking.
Home. For those who have believed on Christ, "Home" is Heaven. And our time here on this earth is the road leading home. Sometimes it's hard and bumpy; sometimes it's smooth going. But once we get Home - to that Place of comfort and warmth - looking back, our travels will only seem like a little while; and it's good to keep that perspective, even while traveling. "We should be home in a little bit."

3. We haven't had rain in a while, and things are beginning to suffer. But I was in town yesterday, and big black clouds began gathering and covering the sky. The wind was whipping up leaves, bits of trash, and random raindrops, and you could smell the water in the air.

4. Mom's oldest sister is quite a whiz when it comes to making things. Anything. Wood-working, knitting, baking, etc. She made up a sugar cookie recipe that is absolutely the best ever, and is also used as the crust for a 'fruit pizza' recipe she made up (though I don't like to call it a 'fruit pizza', 'cause it's not anything like a pizza at all, except that it's spread out on a pan and made in layers). That is one of my favorite desserts. Especially when Trissy makes them. She is so creative when it comes to things like that. I am creative in that I can see something I like and pretty much make it, but Trissy can come up with something out of her head and make it. Whenever she makes this recipe, she always uses the fruit on top to make some kind of beautiful, cute, or creative design. She made one this past week and used blueberries and banana pieces to make sunflowers. SO cute! And SO tasty!

5. Here, I told about this past Memorial Day, and that I had my first real swim in a pond, even though I've grown up in the country with ponds everywhere. It felt so good, especially after the heat of the day, and the itchy liquid soap from the slip-and-slide! The water was pretty warm, but there would be cool currents running through it as well, and to be swimming or floating along and then hit one of those was so refreshing! If you got tired, you could just grab the handle on the front of somebody's kayak and just hang there and rest for a while :) !